Quotes About Journey

a writer is a foreign country

Perhaps you'll escape. Day and night, this obsession. It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Ce voyage-là durait vingt-quatre jours. Les paquebots des lignes étaient déjà des villes avec des rues, des bars, des cafés, des bibliothèques, des salons, des rencontres, des amants, des mariages, des morts. Des sociétés de hasard se formaient, elles étaient obligées, on le savait, on ne l'oubliait pas, et de ce fait elles devenaient vivables, et même parfois inoubliables d'agrément.

La historia de mi vida no existe. Eso no existe. Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay bastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo, no es cierto, no hubo nadie.

No se trata de que sea necesario conseguir algo, sino de que es necesario salirse de donde se está

I understand, but I've come back from a long journey and now I'm resting. I never much like thinking of the future and today, when I'm resting, even less: that's why I am so bad at explaining to you how it is I can put up with my life as it is and not change it, and what is more, not even be able to imagine changing. I'm sorry.

You can see as many towns as you like but it never gets you anywhere. And once you have stopped looking, there you are, exactly where you were before.

Traveling is a great distraction. Everyone has always traveled, the Greeks, the Phoenicians: it has always been so, all through history.

No sabía que el dolor contiene extraños laberintos por los cuales no había terminado de andar

Comme le voyageur qui navigue entre les îles de l'Archipel voit la buée lumineuse se lever vers le soir, et découvre peu à peu la ligne du rivage, je commence à apercevoir le profil de ma mort.

Piccola anima smarrita e soave, compagna e ospite del corpo, ora t'appresti a scendere in luoghi incolori, ardui e spogli, ove non avrai più gli svaghi consueti. Un istante ancora, guardiamo insieme le rive familiari, le cose che certamente non vedremo mai più... Cerchiamo d'entrare nella morte a occhi aperti...

Come il viaggiatore che naviga tra le isole dell'Arcipelago vede levarsi a sera i vapori luminosi, e scopre a poco a poco la linea della costa, così io comincio a scorgere il profilo della mia morte.

La gente que encontramos en las calles durante el día nos da la impresión de tener una meta precisa, que se supone razonable, pero por la noche parece caminar en sueños.

Het landschap van mijn leven lijkt, net als bergachtige streken, te bestaan uit verschillende lukraak opeengestapelde materialen. (...) Hier en daar komen de granietblokken van het onvermijdelijke aan de oppervlakte; overal het gruis van het toeval. Ik span me in om mijn levensloop na te gaan teneinde er een plan in te vinden, er een lood- of een goudader in te volgen of de stroom van een ondergrondse rivier, maar dat volkomen kunstmatige plan is niets dan gezichtsbedrog van de herinnering.

No perder nunca de vista el diagrama de una vida humana, que no se compone, por más bien que se diga, de una horizontal y de dos perpendiculares, sino más bien de tres líneas sinuosas, perdidas hacia el infinito, constantemente próximas y divergentes: lo que un hombre ha creído ser, lo que ha querido ser, y lo que fue.

un Ulisse senz'altra Itaca che quella interiore.

My personal brand was, 'In recovery, but still great fun'.

mind. He was driving

of the short journey passed in silence.

paths would have already crossed

discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires...

what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he'd said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.